[Bug 1990824] [NEW] initramfs-tools: out-of-memory failures during autopkgtest

[Andrea Righi]

Public bug reported:

[Impact]

Some autopkgtest tests are failing due to out-of-memory conditions,
especially amd64-ata-only and net.

It seems that we are creating a VM with 1GB only to run the amd64-ata-
only test and even just 512MB for the net test.

It probably makes sense to create larger VMs (at least 2GB) to run these
tests with a more recent kernels (that will likely require a little more
RAM).

[Test case]

sudo autopkgtest . -- null

[Fix]

Increase memory size of instances used to run the autopkgtests to 2GB.

[Regression potential]

We may experience regressions in small cloud instances, or systems with
less than 2GB or RAM that are using a recent kernel (but this is more a
generic potential regression, not strictly related to initramfs-tools).

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  initramfs-tools: out-of-memory failures during autopkgtest

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Some autopkgtest tests are failing due to out-of-memory conditions,
  especially amd64-ata-only and net.

  It seems that we are creating a VM with 1GB only to run the amd64-ata-
  only test and even just 512MB for the net test.

  It probably makes sense to create larger VMs (at least 2GB) to run
  these tests with a more recent kernels (that will likely require a
  little more RAM).

  [Test case]

  sudo autopkgtest . -- null

  [Fix]

  Increase memory size of instances used to run the autopkgtests to 2GB.

  [Regression potential]

  We may experience regressions in small cloud instances, or systems
  with less than 2GB or RAM that are using a recent kernel (but this is
  more a generic potential regression, not strictly related to
  initramfs-tools).

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